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“...for when, having partially relieved myself by a torment of tears, and looked up at the moon, shining so calmly and carelessly on, as little influenced by my misery as I was by its peaceful radiance, and earnestly prayed for death...”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.”
― Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
― Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art— we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”
― In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
― In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
“Though Earth and moon were gone
And suns and universes ceased to be
And thou wert left alone
Every existence would exist in thee.”
― The Night is Darkening Round Me
And suns and universes ceased to be
And thou wert left alone
Every existence would exist in thee.”
― The Night is Darkening Round Me
“But indolent she is, reckless she is, and most ignorant, for she does not know her dreams are rare- her feelings peculiar: she does not know, has never known, and will die without knowing.”
― Shirley
― Shirley
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